The US Open is for Spain. It was confirmed this Friday after the second round of the 2nd edition at number 124 in Pinehurst (North Carolina). Eugenio Chacarra missed the cut with his +3 for +8, but Sergio Garcia, +1 for par, was confirmed in the standard-bearer role left vacant with Rahm’s last-minute withdrawal, and David Puig made up for a bad Thursday with a -2 for +4 that put him through the weekend and the Olympic Games. He would be the one who would eventually accompany Rahmbo to Paris, leaving his partner Jorge Campillo with honey on his lips in Tokyo three years ago.
The USGA has dealt another blow to its devious ploy. The grounds are now concrete slabs and the greens are centrifuges. That’s a couple of very good news; doubles and triple bogeys, the usual currency. Among them, Puig came out to bomb, with birdies falling out of the bag. In total, he hit five hole-outs, four of them on a very good first nine holes. That paved his Olympic path. With another two bogeys, leaving himself few options to subtract along the way, he finished nine seconds. Enough.
The Cádiz Autism Association team wins the Equality Golf Cup Puerto Real ExperienceWhat Sergio Garcia did was enough. Nothing more and nothing less than what had to be done: endure heavy rain on a day in which the top of the table wasn’t going far, and make it through the weekend. Well, yes it has. His +1 for par has put him five shots off the lead, with plenty of golf still to be played. He would have been even closer had he not missed a short putt on the ninth, his last hole (he came out on the 10th), one of the many darts he hit in the afternoon that he could no longer avoid, finishing, as on Thursday, with a high number, a double bogey and two bogeys for three birdies.
Aberg’s temperament and Molinari’s miracle
There were heavyweights knocked out by Pinehurst and out of the cut. The heaviest was Tiger Woods (+3 to +7), who flirted with the cut for a good part of the day but ended up in the bad part, a new testimony to his reality. It is relatively impossible to withstand a preparation like the one Donald Ross designed this week, which had seven competitive laps during filming, and his body can’t do more than that, so that’s it. It is not in vain that a new exemption is already being debated within the PGA, created specifically so that he can play in one of the major tournaments without incurring the costs that sponsors enjoy. This is still needed, but at the same time in a way that does not hinder the generational change.
It is led by Swede Ludvig Aberg, who is currently touring the countryside in his third term Chief As if they have a number on his back. This will be a big bet during the weekend for the shortlist of candidates who do not know about winning Jet engines of golf, such as the Frenchman Pavon (-3 for par), the Belgian Detry (-4 for -3) or the Americans Cantlay (-4 for +1) and Finau (-3 for -1), after completing a solid performance that took the course from -1 to -5 to become the sole leader. At Augusta he could not withstand the onslaught of Schefflerbut now the ‘bogeyman’ is no longer hiding within the cut for a minor setback after throwing +4 for +5 on another day in which he was unrecognizable. Barring an anthological weekend, this will not be your US Open. Neither was Dustin Johnson’s +5 for a +9, nor Justin Thomas’ +4 for a +11. No matter what Francesco Molinari does now, he will always be remembered as the one who holed the 9th hole-in-one to make the cut and remind us why this is an amazing game.
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